Food on foot
Subtitle: a history of eating on trails and in the wild
By: Demet Güzey
Series: The food on the go series; Food on the go series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781442255067
Subjects: Wild foods; Food habits; Survival; Outdoor recreation; History
Description: Demet Guzey offers a fun and interesting read on the social and cultural history, developments, and challenges in food on trails and in the wild. She explores personal accounts, new articles, and anecdotes to highlight how food has accompanied us in mountaineering, in desert travel, on pilgrimage, in the army, and on the street. From tinned foods to foraging in the wold, worm-infested hardtack to palate-dulling army rations, loss of appetite in high altitudes to starvation in trenches, no stone is left unturned in this tour of how we manage food on foot, and how disasters happen when we do not manage it well enough. Readers will delight in both the stories of many of the famous historical explorations and tales of more current journeys.--COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Food on trails; title: Walking in a new continent; title: Polar explorations; title: Mountain expeditions; title: Desert travel; title: Pilgrimage; title: Army rations; title: Street food.